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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday May 22, 2005 15:47 by ipsiphi .:. (ipsi)(phi...) / i(psi...)(phi)
It has long been observed that the mediocre praise the dead and refract the vision of living folly with a mythic myopia. This weekend saw the philosopher Paul Ricoeur die peacefully in his sleep, and the Irish State really kick into its Hamilton year. Whom they term "Ireland's greatest scientist" = utter crap. In honour of Paul Ricoeur, this week's sunday papers is an attack on false memory, the Selective and Collective memory : Memory as fetishised community : Communality as fetishised memorial & I hope readers will bear with the different style as I recover from watching Star Wars episode 2 & I Robot, on DVD, and writing encylcopedia pages and blogs wonder, what has Ricoeur to offer the XXI century??? The Dangerous Place for consideration this Trinity Sunday is the future of Biotech and Human Cloning. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday May 22, 2005 13:36 by Ciaran Long
JERSEY is coming to the rescue of Ireland’s death-row dogs. A truck-load of the abandoned animals will be shipped out to the tiny channel island, saving them from being put down. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday May 21, 2005 16:09 by yb
Paul Ricoeur was born on February 27, 1913 in Valence, France and died yesterday the 20th of May 2005 in Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France at 92 years of age. His was one of the great philosophical voices of phenomonology and humanism in the XX century. His thought on linguistics and symbolism and the imperative for dialogue will influence many. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday May 21, 2005 14:56 by dunk
greenway cycle to make an official greenway for Dublin, leave 6.30, cycle should take about 2 hours international velo-city conference and european greenway conference happening in town. May 31st- June 3rd 2005. Opportune time to start the wheels turning in development of the botanic spine, an 18km greenway and ecological corridor for dublin city. The first Dublin City Greenway Cycle will pedal off from Mayor Square in the IFSC at 6.30. We are planning a discssion forum beforehand in the community centre or the park in sheriff street (to be confirmed). We will travel clockwise, heading from the square to the east link bridge as the green foot bridge is not yet built. the aim of the cycle is to highlight the fact that we nearly have this greenway in its entirity, all is needed is a little commitment and spending from the government to make it a reality read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday May 21, 2005 14:30 by Síun
National Demonstration for Justice for Palestine on the occasion of the Ireland/Israel match in Lansdowne Road Saturday 4th June Assemble 3pm Central Bank, Dame St followed by march to Israeli Embassy read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday May 21, 2005 12:26 by Raymond McInerney
His Highness the Raja of England, Dr Peter Warburton announced that Inishraher Island in Clew Bay, Ireland, has been named as a Maharishi Capital of the Global Country of World Peace. Plans to build a Peace Palace on the island have been submitted to the county Council. Warburton explained that because of the activities of the Peace Palace, 'The Government of Ireland will be raised to invincibility and enjoy a level of success they have not known before.' read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Saturday May 21, 2005 11:31 by dunk
there is a conference happening about greenways for europe as part of dublin hosting velo city that evening there is a "docklands cycle" to start vevent we have been exploring the possibility of creating a greenway for dublin city and this would be an ideal time to explore this idea, especially as there is much "development" happening in part of it at present: spencer dock and sheriff st @ the royal canal. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 20, 2005 19:29 by Haiti Information Project
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Haiti's capital May 18 to demand the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and freedom for the political prisoners. The MINUSTAH troops provided logistical support allowing SWAT teams to intimidate the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. The U.N. also tried to stop HIP correspondent Kevin Pina from reporting the news with repeated threats. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / news report Friday May 20, 2005 17:37 by belfast grassroots against the G8
Belfast Food Not Bombs, & Belfast Grassroots Against the G8 present a Weekend Of Dissent! celebrating local creative & sustainable action in resistance to the G8. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Friday May 20, 2005 14:11 by kevin
Martin Rowan from the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership sheds some light on the diamond trade. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday May 20, 2005 13:40 by Eloy Val
The comrades of Ezker Marxista and El Militante organised a speaking tour throughout the Basque Country between May 8 and May 14, with the presence of Gerry Rudy and Danny, both members of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party). It was an exceptional campaign from various points of view. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 20, 2005 11:32 by DissentHead
Last night Dublin anarchists went to the Colombian consul on Brighton road, Foxrock to demonstrate against the murder by the Colombian riot police of 15 year old anarchist Nicolás David Neira Alvares on the Bogota Mayday march. As the demonstration started the political police arrived and rapidly arrested two of those taking part. read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday May 19, 2005 21:16 by Kevin Doyle
"I hope things will come around and that at the end of the day we will manage to save An Post from privatisation. You don't want to think the opposite, because it is your job. But the truth is that all the signs, everything is pointing the other way around." An interview by Kevin Doyle of the WSM with an An Post worker about the state of the union. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Thursday May 19, 2005 20:52 by .:. ipsiphi
Banksy, one of those names which has been recognised for years amongst the European underground artivism scene, not least because he thought to leave his name stencilled near his better work which left on the walls of Bristol, London, Barcelona and many other cities, helped us work out the name he likes for himself, and indeed be additionally inspired to explore the artistic and political potential of the stencil. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday May 19, 2005 16:15 by Clare
A public meeting to highlight the opposition to the Gas refinery which has recieved Bord Pleanála approval for the Erris region of Mayo will be held in Dublin on Wednesday evening the 25th. The meeting will also cover Shell Oils record in such projects around the globe most notably in Nigeria. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday May 19, 2005 14:51 by iosaf
1998 was a pivotal year in European politics, it saw the governments of Ireland and the UK negotiate with armed factions on areas of joint constitutional concern. We call this the "power sharing agreement" in the ·"peace process". 1998 also saw the government of Spain under Aznar authorise contact with an armed faction to discuss areas of joint constitutional concern. We call this "one of the ETA ceasefires". read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday May 19, 2005 00:24 by Mark Chapman
Tuesday 17 May, the Peace People (peacepeople.com) and INNATE (innatenonviolence.org) decommissioned missiles in Belfast city centre and handed in a letter of protest at the £900,000 of EU Peace & Reconciliation funding given to local missile manufacturers Thales. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday May 18, 2005 22:15 by $=€
Ryanair, that company which so brazenly took one of the national emblems and built no less than an empire of precarity out of budget tourism, has come through scandalous criticism after scornful spite. Ryanair, that company that favours precarious workers over secure contracts, from assembly line in Boeing USA, to airport staff in Reus. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday May 18, 2005 20:16 by dunk
meet outside libery hall, there to east link bridge, travel clockwise, videoing event to make film for future exhibition bring equipment, over before 9am bring warm clothes for morning info on greenway: http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/walkways/project7.html upcoming euro greenway conference in dublin 31st may? will confirm first official dublin greenway cycle, that weekend, tie in with critical mass this year dublin hosts velo city http://www.velo-city2005.com/ read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday May 18, 2005 02:28 by Tommy Donnellan
are holding a benefit gig for Nepal on Thursday, 19th May @ De Burgos, Augustine St @ 7PM. read full story / add a comment |
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